How the West Rejected “Nice” Music A Century Ago with Steven Cassedy -- To Be Musical (Extended Cut)

3/22/2013; 71 minutes

UC San Diego Professor of Literature and pianist Steven Cassedy presents a psychoacoustic account of dissonant music and a history from the tonal Chopin to the atonal works of Schoenberg, Stravinsky, and Copland in the fourth session of the "To Be Musical" series, sponsored by Eleanor Roosevelt College at UC San Diego. (#24962)

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